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G. F. HUTGHINS & W. D. THOMPSON. TAKE-UP MECHANISM.

No. 595,103. Patented Deo.'7. 1897.

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GEORGE F. HUTOHINS AND \VILLIAM D. THOMPSON, OF VVOROESTER, MAS- SACHUSETTS, ASSIGNORS TO THE OROMPTON 8t KNOIVLES LOOM IVORKS, OF SAME PLACE.

TAKE-UP MECHANISM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 595,103, dated December 7, 1897.

Application filed April 12, 1897. Serial No. 631,741. (N mOd L To all whom it may concern: tion of a driven shaft, which may be the Be it known that we, GEORGE F. HUTCH- take-up shaft of a narrow-ware loom. 2 is a INS and \VILLIAM D. THOMPSON, citizens of hand-wheel loosely mounted 011 said shaft and the United States, residing at \Vorcester, in having an eccentric-hub portion 3. A shell the county of \Vorcester and State of Massa- 4, having a hub 4, is secured on the shaft chusetts, have invented certain new and use- 1, contiguous to the hub 3 of the hand-wheel ful Improvements in Take-up Mechanisms, 2, by a set screw or bolt 5. (See Fig. 2.) In of which the following is a specification. order to obtain access to the bolt 5 to turn it Our invention relates to a take-up mechin or out, we preferably have a hole 6 through 10 anism, and is designed more particularly to be the periphery of the shell 4. (See Fig. 2.) used in connection with narrow-ware looms. Upon the shell 4 is mounted, to turn freely In this class of looms a series of take-up rolls thereon, the take-up roll or drum 7, which is are mounted on a common take-up shaft and provided with internal gear-teeth 8 at the revolve with said shaft to take up or wind edge adjacent to the hand-wheel 2. (See 1 5 up the fabric as it is woven, and each take- Fig. 2.) The shell 4 is provided with exterup roll is adapted to be revolved in either dinal gear-teeth 9 on the end adjacent to the rection independently of the take-up shaft eccentric-hub 3 of the hand-wheel 2. (See in case of a shuttle-thread breaking, or for Fig. 2.) any other reason. Within the inner end of the takeup roll or 2o Diiferent mechanisms have been used for drum 7 is arranged what may be termed a connecting the take-up rolls with the comcombination gear-rim 10, having a central mon take-up shaft to cause them to revolve concentric opening, into which extends the therewith and for disconnecting them to cause eccentric portion 3 on the hand-wheel 2. The them to revolve independently thereof; and combination gear-rim 10 has external gear- 2 5 the object of our invention is to provide an teeth 11 on the periphery thereof, the numimproved take-up mechanism which is prefber of which is less than the number of teeth erably made entirely of metal and is of sim- 8 in the drum 7, and said teeth are adapted to ple construction. engage and mesh with said teeth 8, as shown Our invention consists in certain novel in Fig. 4. The combination gear-rim 10 has 30 features of construction of our take-upinechalso internal gear-teeth 12, the number of anism, as will be hereinafter fully described. which is greater than the teeth 9 on the shell Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is an 4, and are adapted to mesh with said teeth 9. edge view, looking in the direction of arrow (See Fig. 4.) The combination gear-rim 10 a, Fig. 3, of a take-up roll and hand-wheel is made to turn freely on the eccentric-hub 35 mounted on a shaft and provided with our portion 3 0f the hand-wheel 2, and the geartake-up mechanism or mechanism for conteeth 11 and 12 thereon are concentric with necting the take-up roll to the shaft or disthe central opening in said gear-rim. connecting it therefrom. Fig. 2 is a central A collar 13, secured on the shaft 1 by a vertical section of the roll and hand-wheel screw 14, holds the hand-wheel 2 in place 40 shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side view lookagainst the inner edge of the take-up roll or in g in the direction of arrow 1), Fig. 1. Fig. 4 drum 7 and the take-up roll or drum 7 in place is a side View looking in the direction of aron the shell 4. An internal annular flange row 0, Fig. 2, the hand-wheel being removed, 7 on the drum 7 extends over the inner edge showing the arrangement of gear-teeth. One of the periphery of the shell 4. (See Fig. 2.)

45 of the gear-teeth rims is partially broken The eccentricity of the hub portion 3 of the 5 away or shown in section to show the gearhand-wheel 2 is equal to the length of a tooth teeth under the same. Fig. 5 corresponds to on the combination-gear 10 plus any addi- Fig. 4, but the gear-teeth rim shown in Fig. tional amount for clearance. (See Fig. 4.)

4 is removed. The operation of our take-up mechanism 50 In the accompanying drawings, 1 is a porwill be readily understood by those skilled in the art from the above description in connection with thedrawings.

When the shaft 1 revolves in the ordinary operation of the loom, the shell 4, fast thereon, will revolve with it and will carry the drum or take-up roll 7 and the hand-wheel 2 through the combination-gear 10, loosely mounted on the eccentric portion 3 of the hand-wheel 2. When it is desired to cause the take-up roll or drum 7 toturn in either direction independently of the shaft 1, said shaft continuing to revolve, the hand-wheel 2 is turned in one direction or the other, according to whether it is desired to turn the take-up roll or drum 7 forward or back. When the handwheel'2 is revolved in either direction, said hand-wheel being loose on the shaft 1, as above stated, the eccentric portion 3 thereon revolves within the concentric central opening in the combination-gear 10 and moves said gear so that the internal gear-teeth 12 will be engaged continually with the gear-teeth 9 on the shell 4 through any movement of the eccentric and hand-wheel, and it will be noticed that by one revolution of the hand-wheel 2 and the eccentric portion 3 thereon all the gear-teeth 9 have been engaged by the gearteeth 12, and if there are one or more gearteeth 12 than there are gear-teeth 9 the movement of the combination-gear 10 will be advanced beyond its original position by the difference in the number of teeth between teeth 9 and 12. An operation of a similar nature will take place between the gear-teeth 8 and the gear-teeth 11 during the same revolution of the hand-wheel, and there being more teeth 8 than there are teeth 11 they will be advanced or moved forward in the same direction around the teeth 11 as the teeth 12 are advanced around the teeth 9, and the movement of the take-up roll or drum 7 independently of the shaft 1 for one revolution of the handwheel 2 and eccentric-hub 3 thereon will be equal to the combined advancement of the gears 12 and 8, above referred to. The continued revolution of the hand-Wheel 2 will cause the take-up roll or drum 7 to revolve on the shaft 1 as desired.

The advantages of our take-up mechanism will be readily appreciated by those skilled in the art.

When any force is applied to rotate the take-up roll or drum 7 on the shaft 1 without the aid of the hand-wheel 2 by reason of the multiplying power of said hand-wheel and by reason of the eccentric portion 3 thereon, the

drum 7 will remain positively in any position given to it by the hand-wheel, so that there will be no backward or forward movement.

It willbe understood that the details of construction of our take-up mechanism may be varied somewhat from what is shown and described.

We have described our take-up mechanism with special reference to its use as a take-up for the take-up roll or drum on a narrow-ware loom; but we do not limit ourselves to this application of our mechanism, as it may be used for any other purpose and may be adapted to be applied to different machines or mechanical structures.

, Having thus described our invention,wl1at we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A take-up mechanism for l0oms,&c.,co1nprising a metal shell to be secured on a shaft, the periphery of the shell having an opening therein for access to the bolt, which secures the hub of the shell on the shaft, and external gear-teeth on said hub, a drum or takeup roll mounted loosely on the periphery of said shell, and having internal gear-teeth on the edge thereof, a gear-rim extendingloosely Within said gear-teeth, and provided with external gear-teeth meshing therewith, and internal gear-teeth meshing with the teeth on the shell, and a hand-wheel having an eccentric hub or portion which extends within the central opening in the gear-rim, which opening is concentric with the gear-teeth on said rim, substantially as shown and described.

2. A take-up mechanism for looms, &c.,comprising a metal shell to be secured on ashaft, and having external gear-teeth on its hub, a drum or take-up roll mounted loosely on the periphery of said shell, and having internal gear-teeth on the edge thereof, a gear-rim extending loosely within said gear-teeth, and provided with external gear-teeth meshing therewith, and internal gear-teeth meshing with the teeth on the shell, and a hand-wheel having an eccentric hub or portion which extends within the central opening in the gearrim,which opening is concentric with the gearteeth on said rim, substantially as shown and described.

GEORGE F. HUTOHINS. WILLIAM D. THOMPSON.

Witnesses:

J. O. DEWEY, M. J. GALvIN. 

